MEANINGS OF THE WORD "SEAGULL" IN THE SPANISH TRANSLATION OF CHEKHOV'S PLAYS

The traditional theatrical studies usually consider that the word "seagull" in the translation of the homonymous Chechov's play has a symbolical value. However, this paper will try to identify other possible meanings in Spanish applying a polyphonic-argumentative perspective. Using the Theory of the polyphony (Ducrot 1984) and the Theory of the semantic blocks (Carel y Ducrot 2005) as a framework, it will be seen that the text recalls two dif-ferent meanings: "seagull PT freedom" and "seagull PT madness". At the same time, the coexistence of this two semantic blocks reproduce the con-trast between the "youth" and of the "elder" present in the play.